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  1. Man Who Made Up His Mind, The (1994 Video)

    Producer
    David Sington
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at Nobel laureate Gerald Edelman’s biological theory of the mind, which see the brain not as an information processing machine but as an evolving ecosystem of competing groups of cells. In his...

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  2. Sir Walter’s Journey (1994 Video)

    Subject
    Anthropology; Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    The history of Britain as known from the genetic makeup it her people. Geneticist Sir Walter Bodmer sets out on a journey around Britain to prove how our genes can uncover a hidden history of our people,...

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  3. Small Arms, Soft Targets (1994 Video)

    Producer
    Martin Freeth
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    In recent years the design of anti-personnel weapons has raced ahead. But new generations of automatic rifles, fragmentation weapons and landmines are producing an epidemic of horrifying injuries on the...

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  4. Some Liked It Hot (1994 Video)

    Producer
    Chris Hale
    Subject
    Anthropology; Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    How did our ancestors evolve their large brains? Inspired by Cray super-computer cooling systems and a car radiator, scientists have now linked big brain with walking upright. Living in the new hotter...

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  5. Ulcer Wars (1994 Video)

    Producer
    Michael Mosley
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 48 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Until the mid-1970s the only answer to serious peptic ulcers was surgery. The popular belief then, and now, is that ulcers are due to stress, which causes the stomach to produce acid. Barry Marshall...

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  6. Allergic to the 20th Century (1993 Video)

    Producer
    John Groom
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Asthma has reached epidemic proportions in the western world and is now increasing in the developing world. Scientistsbelieve the cause may be an allergic reaction to something in the 20th-century lifestyle....

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  7. Cheating Time (1993 Video)

    Producer
    Deborah Cadbury
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Asks whether it is possible to rewrite our biological destiny. Already motherhood is possible after the menopause, but it may be possible to rejuvenate the ovaries and reverse the menopause, or at least...

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  8. Dante Goes to Hell (1993 Video)

    Producer
    Simon Campbell-Jones
    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Examines possible contributions of volcanoes to the ozone hole. Follows a robot called Dante as it is sent into Erebus, an active volcano in Antarctica, to find out how much ozone-damaging chlorine the...

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  9. Electronic Frontier, The (1993 Video)

    Producer
    Sheila Hayman
    Subject
    Information technology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at the growth of personal computer industry. Bill Gates of Microsoft is one of America’s richest men. The key to future profits is something portable and friendly and linked to a stream of digital...

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  10. Ghosts in the Dinosaur Graveyard (1993 Video)

    Director
    John Lynch
    Subject
    Geology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    The Gobi Desert of Mongolia is the world’s harshest places and its greatest dinosaur graveyard. An expedition from the American Museum of Natural History follows in the 1920s’ footsteps of one of the...

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